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2021 Cap. Punishment 1 (2021)

handle is hein.death/cpshm2021 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics November 2023, NCJ 305534 Capital Punishment, 2021 - Statistical Tables Tracy L. Snell, BJS Statistician t yearend 2021, a total of 27 states and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) held 2,382 prisoners under sentence of death, which was 79 (3%) fewer than at yearend 2020 (table 1, figure 1). California (29%), Florida (14%), and Texas (8%) held more than half of the prisoners under sentence of death in the United States on December 31, 2021. The BOP held 42 prisoners under sentence of death at yearend. At yearend 2021, 30 states and the federal government had death penalty statutes (map 1). In July 2021, Virginia abolished the state's capital murder offense (see Status of the death penalty in 2021), leaving a total of 20 states and MAP 1 the District of Columbia with no death penalty statute in force on December 31, 2021. Five states (Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Alabama, and Mississippi) and the BOP executed a total of 11 prisoners in 2021. Among the prisoners executed, 10 were male and 1 was female (not shown in tables). Texas and the BOP each executed three prisoners, which accounted for more than half of the executions carried out in 2021. This report presents statistics on prisoners who were under sentence of death in 2021, a summary of state and federal death penalty laws in 2021, and historical trends in executions. States with and without death penalty statutes, yearend 2021 * Had the death penalty as of December 31, 2021 and carried out an execution in 2021* Q Had the death penalty as of December 31, 2021 but did not carry out an execution in 2021 Q Had no death penalty as of December 31, 2021 ID. i-rn i-rn i-rn A H Note: See table 2 for details on states that authorized the death penalty. *Not shown: Federal Bureau of Prisons, which carried out three executions in 2021. See table 1 for executions by jurisdiction. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Prisoner Statistics program (NPS-8), 2021. BJS

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